The Knot Hole Club of Greater Cincinnati, a little league baseball club, has banned chatter–you know, yelling “Hey battuh, battuh, swing, battuh!”–during games. One of the main reasons for the ban is because kids’ feelings might get hurt from chatter, which I’ll readily admit can and does happen, but getting hurt is part of life. [...]
Archive for November, 2011
This is the last minute or so of the NCAA men’s division II basketball championship, and I’m relatively sure that it is more exciting than anything that will happen in the Final Four this weekend. Who knew that before Star Trek William Shatner was in a horror movie that used only Esperanto and was shot [...]
The Bank of England is now issuing £20 notes featuring the man many credit with founding economics, Adam Smith. But Adam Smith was opposed to monopoly banks like the Bank of England, as Larry White points out.
Some students from Lynn University in Flrida are getting three credits to watch the Final Four live. Oh, and that isn’t all: The trip cost [sic] $3,250 per student. It may seem pricey but the total covered the cost of the class, a hotel room for six nights, food, roundtrip airline tickets, two rental minivans, [...]
The New York Times has a piece on getting high through asphyxiation (a.k.a. the “choking game,” or “space cowboy,” or “cloud nine”), which if the article is to be believed is so hot among the kids right now. While asphyxiation games have been around for many years, a series of locally publicized deaths around the [...]
You can now snitch on your friends and acquaintances for drug offenses online thanks to the DEA’s new tip page. I’m sure it’s probably illegal to send a false tip about, say, a local undercover cop or police chief, and they can probably track the IP addresses of whoever sends the tips, so if a [...]
Last October the highly respected British medical journal the Lancet reported that an estimated 601,000 Iraqis had been killed violently since the beginning of the war. At the time, the study was dismissed by both Prime Minister Blair and President Bush as deeply methodologically flawed, but now the BBC is reporting that Ministry of Defense’s [...]
I usually have this up earlier, but I’ll try to make up for the lateness in quality. This site is a forum for people to share the crazy beliefs they held as children. Feel free to leave any funny beliefs you had as a child in the comments. I’ll start: I used to think that [...]
The Iranian navy captured fifteen British sailors and marines today. The British claim they were searching a merchant ships believed to be smuggling cars in Iraqi waters, but the Iranians claim they had actually crossed into Iranian waters, naturally. Unfortunately, this event has implications far beyond the lives of those fifteen men. I think how [...]
I’m currently reading Brian Doherty’s history of the modern American libertarian movement, Radicals for Capitalism, and it caused to me to think again about the dearth of offspring from libertarian intellectuals. Intellectual movements are frequently continued by the children of its founders. The most obvious recent example is neoconservatism. Editor of the Weekly Standard and [...]
